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Last week, almost 100 Harvard University faculty members made it clear to President Neil L. Rudenstine and Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 that the battle for a Harvard Living Wage could no longer be regarded as a student movement but rather as a community-based effort. Each signature on the open letter supporting the Living Wage Campaign brings the movement a step closer to the prestige and legitimacy--and ultimate it deserves...
Although the University has yet to respond to the open letter, we are eager to hear what Rudenstine and the new Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies have to say. We hope that especially after almost 100 faculty members signed their names in support of a $10 an hour minimum wage, the University takes the efforts of those pressing the issue and signing the petitions seriously...
National graduate school enrollment has declined this year, but applications for the Mellon Fellowships were up 4.5 percent, to almost 800 applicants...
...action came after Congress's fiercest rival, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), made clear that it planned to make Mrs. Gandhi's Italian birth the centerpiece of its campaign in an election bereft of policy issues. Congress had focused much of its campaigning around Gandhi, using the almost mythical allure of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty (she's the widow of assassinated prime minister Rajiv Gandhi) to rally an electorate made cynical by years of corruption scandals and petty politicking. By Tuesday she hadn't backed down, despite the exhortations of Congress leaders and thousands of demonstrators to reconsider...
...reason Jackson has made a career of giving dictators such as Slobodan Milosevic a chance to show their gentler side by releasing captives at his request. It's not mere ego tripping, as some cynics charge, or an expression of Jackson's deeply held belief in nonviolence. It's almost Faustian. I think he needs the rush that only bargaining with evil can provide...